# Is anyone here voting early, if your area offers it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 16, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067 "2018-10-16T23:05:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/101 "2018-11-02T21:47:59Z")
I’ll be TDY next week, so I voted today at our county’s BoE. Was a simple process, and there was no wait. I actually preferred it to (the normal) Tuesday voting. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/102 "2018-11-02T22:29:13Z")
I live in Washington, so I dropped off my ballot at the drop box earlier this week. Here all voting is by mail-in/drop-off. So it has to be dropped off or postmarked by the deadline, but there’s no such thing as “early voting”. We also have a system where the top two candidates in the primary are on the ballot in the general election. If the top two are Democrats, then you choose between two Democrats. I think there was only one race here in King County where I even had a chance to vote for a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/103 "2018-11-02T22:50:15Z")
I voted early this week, and had about a 25 minute wait. And that’s with multiple polling places around the county and nearly two weeks of daily availability of early voting. The numbers are going to beggar all previous midterms, I suspect. (Hooray!) ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/104 "2018-11-03T03:30:22Z")
Thanks **Lance Turbo** for that link. I checked and my vote has been received and will be counted. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/105 "2018-11-03T14:08:02Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > Thanks **Lance Turbo** for that link. I checked and my vote has been received and will be counted. Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/106 "2018-11-03T14:50:24Z")
Three from our household, turned in last week. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/107 "2018-11-04T16:29:56Z")
I voted early in DC at an early voting center. The place was bustling, but no wait. We don’t have Voting members of Congress, but there were a couple of citywide candidates I wanted to vote for. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/108 "2018-11-04T23:50:43Z")
[This just came across my Twitter feed:](https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/1059116637926948865) > [@](#): > > Michael Del Moro @MikeDelMoro > > NBC NEWS: as of Nov. 4th, early vote total nationwide is 34,789,998 > > The total early vote in 2014 was 21,218,015. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/109 "2018-11-05T00:25:53Z")
What was the early vote total in 2016? ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/110 "2018-11-05T00:33:19Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > What was the early vote total in 2016? [According to this site,](http://www.electproject.org/early_2016) 47,242,753. They’ve also got it broken into various demographics and political leanings. Quick look shows 42.000% Democratic, 34.50% Republican. You can copy and paste the whole thing into Excel. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/111 "2018-11-05T11:58:44Z")
Saw that Michigan has no early voting. Any other state have no early voting or vote by mail? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/112 "2018-11-05T17:04:45Z")
I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong, and Republicans had it right all along. I never knew that voter fraud was so easy, and so much _fun_. I’ve voted four times so far: the first time under my real name and registration (obviously), and then an hour later when I switched around my first and middle names. The next day I decided to have some fun and identified myself as Mickey Mouse. They waved me through without a glance, so later that afternoon I showed up again as “Ratón Miguelito,” wearing a poncho and a sombrero. Not only did they let me vote, they gave me an extra ballot so I could vote for _mi abuelita_, whom I told them was housebound with watery diarrhea. I figure I can get at least ten more votes in tomorrow— maybe a baker’s dozen. With my “OFFICIAL ELECTION INSPECTOR” t-shirt, reflective vest and hard hat, I’m sure they’ll allow me to “perform routine maintenance” on a few of the machines, **wink wink**. I’ve got a car trunk full of costumes and I’m free all day. At least once, I plan to go in dressed as both ends of a pantomime horse. That’s two votes right there. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/113 "2018-11-05T17:21:21Z")
The Great Soros thanks you. Did you get your check? Here in TX we get a 20% BetoBux bonus, allowing us to spend massive amounts of money at Whataburger™, skateboard shops, Guitar Center™ and weed dealers. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/114 "2018-11-05T17:24:59Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong, and Republicans had it right all along. I never knew that voter fraud was so easy, and so much _fun_. I’ve voted four times so far: the first time under my real name and registration (obviously), and then an hour later when I switched around my first and middle names. The next day I decided to have some fun and identified myself as Mickey Mouse. They waved me through without a glance, so later that afternoon I showed up again as “Ratón Miguelito,” wearing a poncho and a sombrero. Not only did they let me vote, they gave me an extra ballot so I could vote for _mi abuelita_, whom I told them was housebound with watery diarrhea. > > I figure I can get at least ten more votes in tomorrow— maybe a baker’s dozen. With my “OFFICIAL ELECTION INSPECTOR” t-shirt, reflective vest and hard hat, I’m sure they’ll allow me to “perform routine maintenance” on a few of the machines, **wink wink**. I’ve got a car trunk full of costumes and I’m free all day. At least once, I plan to go in dressed as both ends of a pantomime horse. That’s two votes right there. > [@JohnT](#): > > The Great Soros thanks you. Did you get your check? > > Here in TX we get a 20% BetoBux bonus, allowing us to spend massive amounts of money at Whataburger™, skateboard shops, Guitar Center™ and weed dealers. You two are hilarious. 😃 Thanks for giving me a wonderful LOL moment. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/115 "2018-11-05T17:25:56Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong, and Republicans had it right all along. I never knew that voter fraud was so easy, and so much _fun_. I’ve voted four times so far: the first time under my real name and registration (obviously), and then an hour later when I switched around my first and middle names. The next day I decided to have some fun and identified myself as Mickey Mouse. They waved me through without a glance, so later that afternoon I showed up again as “Ratón Miguelito,” wearing a poncho and a sombrero. Not only did they let me vote, they gave me an extra ballot so I could vote for _mi abuelita_, whom I told them was housebound with watery diarrhea. > > I figure I can get at least ten more votes in tomorrow— maybe a baker’s dozen. With my “OFFICIAL ELECTION INSPECTOR” t-shirt, reflective vest and hard hat, I’m sure they’ll allow me to “perform routine maintenance” on a few of the machines, **wink wink**. I’ve got a car trunk full of costumes and I’m free all day. At least once, I plan to go in dressed as both ends of a pantomime horse. That’s two votes right there. That only works if they think you are voting Trump-wise. Try doing that with a prominent “I love Democrats!” button and see how far you get. After you get out of jail, of course. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/116 "2018-11-05T18:34:44Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > The Great Soros thanks you. Did you get your check? > > Here in TX we get a 20% BetoBux bonus, allowing us to spend massive amounts of money at Whataburger™, skateboard shops, Guitar Center™ and weed dealers. “Vote early and often” is an official Texas slogan. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/117 "2018-11-05T22:52:57Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Saw that Michigan has no early voting. Any other state have no early voting or vote by mail? to answer my own question 37 states have early voting or vote by mail. the list of what each state allows is here: > **[The battle over early voting, explained](https://www.vox.com/2018/10/29/18018634/early-voting-2018)** > > Making voting more convenient is surprisingly controversial. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/118 "2018-11-05T23:14:48Z")
Indianapolis finally opened up early voting locations in the area (my understanding was republicans on the state level were blocking it for the last decade). I voted last week. I wish I had been able to learn what the judges stood for and what the school board candidates stood for. But I couldn’t so I left those blank. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/119 "2018-11-06T11:53:37Z")
I didn’t vote early, but I did get an early start today so that I could vote before going to work. On a side note, check out Google’s homepage today. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/120 "2018-11-06T13:02:25Z")
No early voting in PA, I just voted this morning before work. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067.md?page=7)